The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
10 best books like The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible (Matti Friedman): Coolidge, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, As a Driven Leaf, A Door in the Earth, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child: The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child's Difficult Behavior, If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir, The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto, The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning, On Sacrifice
| Author | Amity Shlaes |
| ISBN | 0061967556 |
Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Vermonter, nicknamed "Silent Cal," has long been dismissed as quiet and passive. History has remembered the decade in which he served as a frivolous, extravagant period predating the Great Depression....
How to Fight Anti-Semitism
| Author | Bari Weiss |
| ISBN | 9780593136 |
The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.
“Stunning . . . Bari Weiss is heroic, fearless, brilliant and big-hearted. Most importantly, she...
| Author | Milton Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0874411033 |
The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction tells the gripping tale of renegade talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuyah's struggle to reconcile his faith with the allure of Hellenistic culture.
Set in Roman Palestine, As a Driven Leaf draws readers...
| Author | Amy Waldman |
| ISBN | 0316451576 |
For readers of Cutting for Stone and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Submission about the journey of a young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated...
| Author | Adina Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0805242589 |
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove...
| Author | Jeffrey Bernstein |
| ISBN | 1569243018 |
Occasional clashes between parents and children are not uncommon, but when defiant behavior — such as tantrums, resistance to chores, and negativity — becomes chronic, it can cause big problems within the family. In 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, child and family psychologist Dr. Jeff Bernstein...
| Author | Ilana Kurshan |
| ISBN | 0646152602 |
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a romantic,...
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679738347 |
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional...
The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning
| Author | Jonathan Sacks |
| ISBN | 0340995246 |
Writing with his usual grace and fluency, Jonathan Sacks moves beyond the tired arguments of militant atheists such as Dawkins and Hitchens, to explore how religion has always played a valuable part in human culture and far from being dismissed as redundant, must be allowed to temper and develop scientific...
| Author | Moshe Halbertal |
| ISBN | 0691152853 |
The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual,...
Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet
In Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Dr. Erica Brown takes us on a journey over land and sea, in the footsteps of the Bible’s most recalcitrant prophet. Melding traditional commentators, rabbinic literature, modern biblical scholarship, psychological sensitivity, and artistic imagination, Brown...
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
| Author | Yossi Klein Halevi |
| ISBN | 0062844938 |
New York Times bestseller
"A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly...
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
| Author | Yossi Klein Halevi |
| ISBN | 0060545763 |
Interweaving the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who liberated Jerusalem, the acclaimed international journalist traces the history of Israel from the Six Day War to the present
In June 1967, Israel won a swift and decisive victory in the Six Day War. Many of the soldiers responsible...
| Author | Sean Wilentz |
| ISBN | 0385529880 |
One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.
Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century...
Wallenberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Saved the Jews of Budapest
A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of the true heroes to emerge during the Nazi occupation of Eu-rope. He left a life of privilege and, against staggering odds, brought hope to those who had been...
Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: An American Story
| Author | Yossi Klein Halevi |
| ISBN | 0316498602 |
When Yossi Klein Halevi was a boy, his father told him stories - not fairy tales, but stories of his own harsh past, of living in a tiny hole in the ground to hide from the Nazis, of the nightmarish experience of the Jewish people. He grew up, his father's stories grew within him, and Halevi found himself identifying...
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
| Author | Carly Simon |
| ISBN | 0374277729 |
The instant New York Times bestseller
A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha’s Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship.
Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair—Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her...
The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate
The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes showdowns, with head-shaking surprises every day. Tom Brokaw, the NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the...
